how do i restore windows 8 to a new hard disk

how do i restore windows 8 to a new hard disk

Hello,

the hard disk of a Samsung Ultra 5 crashed. I have got a new hard disk. How do i restore windows 8 and Samsung drivers to the new hard disk? My friend has an exact notebook. How do i copy the recovery partition from his pc and use it on mine?

On my acer laptop they have a process to make a bootable recovery disk on a USB thumb drive. See if your friend's PC has that ability - should be in the samsung software somewhere. Then you could use the thumb drive to restore your system.

If you make the recovery thumb drive, make sure you check the option to "Copy contents from the recovery partition to the recovery drive". If you don't you won't have all the files you need to do the reset. You'll need a large capacity drive too. I needed a 16 GB thumb drive when I created one on my laptop.

I think i found the answer why "Reset" is not performing a bare metal recovery. According to Microsoft Technet documentations, OEM can customize the "Refresh" and "Reset" process by creating custom XML configuration files. For bare metal recovery, XML variable <DiskpartScriptPath> should be defined and a DISKPART script should be provided. But this is not mandatory and i assume most manufacturers don't use the sample script provided by Microsoft.

If you make the recovery thumb drive, make sure you check the option to "Copy contents from the recovery partition to the recovery drive". If you don't you won't have all the files you need to do the reset. You'll need a large capacity drive too. I needed a 16 GB thumb drive when I created one on my laptop.

I tried this option. I checked the option to "copy content from the recovery partition to the recovery drive". I used a 16GB thumb drive. When i try to use it on the PC with the new hard disk. It starts the recovery and then asks me for an image.

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